Coin-tray.



PATENTED JAN. 30, 1906.

E. J. BRANDT. COIN TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 5. 1904.

TINITED STATES PATENT OT ETCE.

EDWARD J. BRANDT, OF VVATERTOWVN, XVISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO BRANDT CASHIER COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPO- RATION OF ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 30, 1906.

Application filed July 5, 1904;. Serial N0 215,372.

To all whom it may (JOIN/WWO:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BRANDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vatertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin-Trays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a coin-tray for the use of cashiers for the storing and convenient distribution of coins of various denominations; and the invention consists in a coin-tray constructed in sections and in such manner that a series of similar or dissimilar sections may be assembled to meet varying requirements. I-Ieretofore these coin-trays have usually been made in a single casting, and obviously, since the wants of different users vary considerably, these wants could not be supplied without either making up the trays specially to order or by keeping a large num ber of trays of different sorts in stock. My improved coin tray being composed of a number of sections of uniform length and the sections for each denomination of coin being duplicates of each other and provided. with convenient means for assembling a plurality of such sections in any desired order of arrangement, I am enabled by simply keeping the sections in stock to meet any requirements without additional expense, and,further, by the employment of these sections the particular arrangement of the tray which was passed into use may be changed and some of the sections taken out or others added at will.

In the accompanying drawin s, Figure 1 represents a face or plan view 0 a coin-tray made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a fragmentary portion of the tray, the view being taken through the coinpockets.

In carrying out my invention I provide a number of sections a, 7), 0, cl, 6, and f of uniform length, each provided with a side wall 9 and a series of cells It and with the end walls i and. 3'. Each of the side walls gis provided at each end with an aperture 7r and each of the end walls with a depending perforated lug Z, and a series of these sections at each end are assembled. by passing a tie -rod m through the series of registering apertures, said rod being conveniently carried at one end by a strip or bar a, which closes one side of the tray, and the rod being provided with a nut 0 or other securing means at its other end. The several cells will be adapted to receive the various coins which the user desires to store and. pay out. As shown in the drawings, these cells are indicated proportionally for the reception of dollars, half-dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies butadifferent arrangement may be madeas, for instance, two sections to contain dollars or any other coin maybe employed or the sections for any one or more of the coins omitted.

The principal feature of the invention is of course the construction of the tray in sections adapted to be uickly assembled with any suitable means for securing the several sections together, and for this purpose instead of separate means it is obvious that the sections may be made to intermember or interlock with each other.

I claim 1. A coin-tray comprising a series of sections disposed side by side longitudinally of the tray, each of said sections containing a plurality of coin-cells disposed side by side transversely of the section, and means for separably and interchangeably uniting said sections laterally, substantially as described.

2. A coin-tray comprising a series of longitudinal sections each containing a plurality of coin-cells disposed side by side transversely of the section, and tie-rods passed transversly through the ends of said sections and uniting them laterally, substantially as described.

3. A coin-tray comprising a series of longitudinal sections each having a side and end walls and a plurality of coin-cells disposed side by side transversely of the section, a strip or bar constituting a side wall on one side of the tray, and. means for separably uniting said sections and side wall laterally, substantially as described.

4. A coin-tray comprising a series of longitudinal sections for coins of different deuniting them laterally, substantially as denominations, each of said sefltions having a scribed. side and end Walls and a p ura 'ty of coin-cells disposed side by side transversely of the sec- EDWARD BRANDT tion, a strip or bar constituting a side Wall on Witnesses:

one side of the tray, and tie-rods passed trans- SAMUEL N. POND, versely through the ends of said sections and FREDERICK C.-GOODWIN. 

